HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition) 0 7 68d +16h publicdomainreview.org/collection/travels-in-the-air 1Enchanting Imposters 1 17 68d +16h daily.jstor.org/enchanting-imposters 2LibCube: Find new sounds from audio synths easier 16 54 71d +4d github.com/cslr/libcube-public/wiki 3VortexNet: Neural network based on fluid dynamics 2 42 67d +1m github.com/samim23/vortexnet 4Google flags Immich sites as dangerous 664 1433 67d +1h immich.app/blog/google-flags-immich-as-dangerous 5Officials scrub data showing US citizens swept up in immigration arrests 10 70 67d +17m thedailybeast.com/officials-scrub-data-showing-us-citizens-swept-up-in-immigration-arrests 6Iceland reports the presence of mosquitoes as climate warms 60 136 67d +30m npr.org/2025/10/22/nx-s1-5582748/iceland-mosquitoes-first-time 7YASA beats own power density record pushing electric motor to 59kW/kg benchmark 58 75 67d +1h yasa.com/news/yasa-smashes-own-unofficial-power-density-world-record-pushing-state-of-the-art-electric-motor-to-staggering-new-59kw-kg-benchmark 8Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text? 169 402 68d +1d twitter.com/karpathy/status/1980397031542989305 9I, Sharpie 35 54 74d +6d commonplace.org/p/chris-griswold-i-sharpie 10Rethinking CQRS: An Interview on OpenCQRS 2 35 67d +40m docs.eventsourcingdb.io/blog/2025/10/23/rethinking-cqrs-an-interview-on-opencqrs 11Common yeast can survive Martian conditions 82 100 75d +7d phys.org/news/2025-10-common-yeast-survive-martian-conditions.html 12InpharmD (YC W21) Is Hiring – NLP Engineer 0 1 67d +26s inpharmd.com/jobs/inpharmd-is-hiring-ai-ml-engineer 13Element: setHTML() method 141 261 67d +11h developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/setHTML 14Why SSA? 102 217 67d +20m mcyoung.xyz/2025/10/21/ssa-1 15Show HN: Cuq – Formal Verification of Rust GPU Kernels 63 92 67d +41m github.com/neelsomani/cuq 16Helion: A High-Level DSL for Performant and Portable ML Kernels 1 12 67d +2h pytorch.org/blog/helion 17Ovi: Twin backbone cross-modal fusion for audio-video generation 114 309 67d +29m github.com/character-ai/Ovi 18Django 6.0 beta 1 released 54 113 67d +25m djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/oct/22/django-60-beta-released 19The Tonnetz 12 72 71d +4d thetonnetz.com 20I built MindMaps for Linux and Git cmdz with quiz, typing game and cheatsheet 8 27 67d +2h mindmapsonline.com/maps_list 21[dead] ? 11 67d +18m sfchronicle.com 22ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than Windows it ships with 196 155 67d +41m tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/rog-xbox-ally-runs-better-on-linux-than-the-windows-it-ships-with-new-test-shows-up-to-32-percent-higher-fps-with-more-stable-framerates-and-quicker-sleep-resume-times 23Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs 141 618 67d +1h ian.sh/fia 24Criticisms of “The Body Keeps the Score” 362 290 67d +19m josepheverettwil.substack.com/p/the-body-keeps-the-score-is-bullshit 25André Gorz predicted the revolt against meaningless work (2023) 69 102 73d +6d znetwork.org/znetarticle/andre-gorz-was-the-theorist-who-predicted-the-revolt-against-meaningless-work 26I see a future in jj 323 372 67d +1h steveklabnik.com/writing/i-see-a-future-in-jj 27Rivian's TM-B electric bike 447 248 67d +25m theverge.com/news/804157/rivian-tm-b-electric-bike-price-specs-helmet-quad 28[dead] ? 2 67d +16m manidoraisamy.com 2942,600 ton ship to break the world record for the deepest drill at 7 miles 18 44 67d +23m blog.bostonorganics.com/chinas-42600-ton-meng-xiang-aims-drill-7-miles-deep-breaking-records 30How do LLM's trade off lives between different categories? 9 15 67d +44m arctotherium.substack.com/p/llm-exchange-rates-updated 31Cyborgs vs. rooms, two visions for the future of computing 16 27 70d +3d interconnected.org/home/2025/10/13/dichotomy 32Show HN: Create interactive diagrams with pop-up content 5 45 67d +3h vexlio.com/features/interactive-diagrams-with-popups 33JMAP for Calendars, Contacts and Files Now in Stalwart 197 386 67d +29m stalw.art/blog/jmap-collaboration 34Chess engines didn't replace Magnus Carlsen, and AI won't replace you 62 24 67d +1h coding-with-ai.dev/posts/use-ai-like-magnus-carlsen 35Look, Another AI Browser 133 224 67d +29m manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/look-another-ai-browser 36Scripts I wrote that I use all the time 386 1284 67d +2h evanhahn.com/scripts-i-wrote-that-i-use-all-the-time 37[dead] ? 16 67d +20m arxiv.org 38HP SitePrint 124 193 67d +4m hp.com/us-en/printers/site-print/layout-robot.html 39[deleted] 0 67d +1h github.com 40How count-min sketches work – frequencies, but without the actual data 7 46 67d +55m instantdb.com/essays/count_min_sketch 41Galaxy XR: The first Android XR headset 217 179 67d +21m blog.google/products/android/samsung-galaxy-xr 42Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding AI Engineer 0 1 67d +23s ycombinator.com/companies/bild-ai/jobs/m2ilR5L-founding-engineer-applied-ai 43Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division 480 523 67d +16m theverge.com/news/804253/meta-ai-research-layoffs-fair-superintelligence 44A non-diagonal SSM RNN computed in parallel without requiring stabilization 1 9 73d +6d github.com/glassroom/goom_ssm_rnn 45The Logarithmic Time Perception Hypothesis 35 61 67d +1h kafalas.comhttp://www./Logtime.html 46Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani 118 73 67d +36m ft.com/content/8e6de299-3eb6-4ba9-8037-266c55c02170 47Farming Hard Drives (2012) 20 43 74d +6d backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming 48Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware 249 471 67d +9m blog.google/technology/research/quantum-echoes-willow-verifiable-quantum-advantage 49SourceFS: A 2h+ Android build becomes a 15m task with a virtual filesystem 61 149 67d +2h source.dev/journal/sourcefs 50Comparison: H.264 vs. H.265/HEVC vs. VP9 6 11 67d +1h red5.net/blog/h264-vs-h265-vp9 51How Apple's walled garden protects ICE 20 79 67d +8m theverge.com/column/803693/ice-epic-games-apple-app-store 52Who benefits from the MAHA anti-science push? 139 95 67d +32m apnews.com/article/maha-supplements-wellness-rfk-jr-vaccine-raw-milk-dc8ecf998ef3835adbf32fc88c14af07 53The security paradox of local LLMs 87 155 67d +1h quesma.com/blog/local-llms-security-paradox 54Designing software for things that rot 44 174 68d +16h drobinin.com/posts/designing-software-for-things-that-rot 55The Apple factory: What perfect coordination feels like 12 12 67d +35m physical-ai.ghost.io/the-apple-factory-what-perfect-coordination-feels-like 56Cryptographic Issues in Cloudflare's Circl FourQ Implementation (CVE-2025-8556) 78 165 67d +37s botanica.software/blog/cryptographic-issues-in-cloudflares-circl-fourq-implementation 57Chezmoi introduces ban on LLM-generated contributions 100 49 67d +1h chezmoi.io/developer-guide 58Linux Capabilities Revisited 42 209 67d +19m dfir.ch/posts/linux_capabilities 59Tiny sugar spoons are popping up on NYC fast-food menus 82 38 67d +9m gothamist.com/news/tiny-sugar-spoons-are-popping-up-on-nyc-fast-food-menus-youre-being-warned 60AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time 292 438 67d +22m bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content 61Patina: a Rust implementation of UEFI firmware 21 138 79d +11d github.com/OpenDevicePartnership/patina 62Cigarette-smuggling balloons force closure of Lithuanian airport 48 81 67d +25m theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/22/cigarette-smuggling-balloons-force-closure-vilnius-airport-lithuania 63Democracy and the open internet die in daylight 116 154 67d +40m heatherburns.tech/2025/10/22/democracy-and-the-open-internet-die-in-daylight 64Sentence Transformers is joining Hugging Face 2 16 67d +1m huggingface.co/blog/sentence-transformers-joins-hf 65The Dragon Hatchling: The missing link between the transformer and brain models 95 133 67d +31m arxiv.org/abs/2509.26507 66The Stagnant Order. and the End of Rising Powers 19 44 67d +5m foreignaffairs.com/united-states/stagnant-order-michael-beckley 67Tesla Recalls Almost 13,000 EVs over Risk of Battery Power Loss 169 184 67d +32m bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-22/tesla-recalls-almost-13-000-evs-over-risk-of-battery-power-loss 68Distributed Ray-Tracing 10 37 73d +5d 4rknova.com//blog/2019/02/24/distributed-raytracing 69Jaguar Land Rover hack cost UK economy an estimated $2.5B 91 86 67d +13m reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/jaguar-land-rover-hack-cost-uk-economy-25-billion-report-says-2025-10-22 70Subprime Lender PrimaLend Enters Bankruptcy After Bond Default 21 43 67d +18m bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-22/subprime-lender-primalend-enters-bankruptcy-after-bond-default 71Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites 605 617 67d +8m nednex.com/en/the-internets-biggest-annoyance-why-cookie-laws-should-target-browsers-not-websites 72A Word on Omarchy 92 131 67d +35m xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-word-on-omarchy 73Infracost (YC W21) Hiring First Dev Advocate to Shift FinOps Left 0 1 67d +27s ycombinator.com/companies/infracost/jobs/NzwUQ7c-senior-developer-advocate 74Ghostly swamp will-O'-the-wisps may be explained by science 21 37 80d +12d snexplores.org/article/swamp-gas-methane-will-o-wisp-chemistry 75Starcloud 226 183 67d +2m blogs.nvidia.com/blog/starcloud 76HarmonyOS 6 Full Overview: New Design, AI Features and Privacy Upgrades [video] 30 20 67d +1m youtube.com/watch?v=KzpXObhArco 77Show HN: Coach Thyself – Replace your morning scroll with structured journaling 23 10 67d +1h thyself.coach 78Greg Newby, CEO of Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, has died 105 637 67d +2h pgdp.net/wiki/In_Memoriam/gbnewby 79Die shots of as many CPUs and other interesting chips as possible 41 225 72d +4d commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Birdman86 80Evaluating Argon2 adoption and effectiveness in real-world software 32 32 75d +7d arxiv.org/abs/2504.17121 81Knocker, a knock based access control system for your homelab 164 68 67d +40m github.com/FarisZR/knocker 82Show HN: Cadence – A guitar theory app 89 193 76d +8d cadenceguitar.com 83MinIO stops distributing free Docker images 530 724 68d +2h github.com/minio/minio/issues/21647#issuecomment-3418675115 84Go subtleties 185 248 76d +9d harrisoncramer.me/15-go-sublteties-you-may-not-already-know 85Greenland’s national telco, Tusass, signs new agreement with Eutelsat 263 387 67d +4m dagens.com/technology/greenland-ditches-starlink-for-french-satellite-service 86Principles and Methodologies for Serial Performance Optimization 0 25 75d +7d danglingpointers.substack.com/p/principles-and-methodologies-for 87The Gypsy Life of Robert Louis Stevenson 25 59 68d +9h hudsonreview.com/2025/10/the-gypsy-life-of-robert-louis-stevenson 88French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence 521 398 68d +33m bbc.com/news/articles/cvgkm2j0xelo 89If you'd built a "tool" that stupid, why would you advertise the fact? 37 111 75d +7d svpow.com/2025/10/13/if-youd-built-a-tool-that-stupid-why-would-you-advertise-the-fact 90Researchers complete first human trial on viability of enteral ventilation 85 98 68d +10h newatlas.com/disease/butt-breathing-ignobel-prize 91Spotify running ICE recruitment ads about "dangerous illegals" 48 73 68d +1h djmag.com/news/spotify-defends-running-ice-recruitment-ads-about-dangerous-illegals-part-of-us-government 92Drawing Text Isn't Simple: Benchmarking Console vs. Graphical Rendering 18 10 75d +7d cv.co.hu/csabi/drawing-text-performance-graphical-vs-console.html 93Evaluating the Infinity Cache in AMD Strix Halo 65 144 68d +16m chipsandcheese.com/p/evaluating-the-infinity-cache-in 94Show HN: AutoLearn Skills for self-improving agents 11 27 68d +1h autolearn.dev 95Erowid - Documenting the Complex Relationship Between Humans and Psychoactives 53 210 68d +7h erowid.org 96Show HN: Modshim – A new alternative to monkey-patching in Python 30 108 73d +5d github.com/joouha/modshim 97I Bought $250k Worth of Physical Nickels 19 25 68d +12m twitter.com/opinioncasino/status/1980038177785000114 98[dead] ? 16 75d +7d thevcedge.substack.com 99OpenBSD 7.8 147 285 68d +24m cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.8/ANNOUNCEMENT 100[dead] ? 14 68d +46m globalnews.ca 101The Hidden Engineering of Niagara Falls 23 188 68d +2h practical.engineering/blog/2025/10/21/the-hidden-engineering-of-niagara-falls 102Cdb: Add support for cdb64 26 84 68d +39m cdb.cr.yp.to/download.html 103Rectal oxygen delivery might soon be a real medical treatment 31 155 68d +1h arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/butt-breathing-might-soon-be-a-real-medical-treatment 104 More... 2025.10.21